Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.
The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
